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Her looks on DS9 reminded me of a younger Brooke Shields. I always liked her, too. Hated the whole Worf/Dax storyline, though.
Yeah I loved Dax. Broke me inside when Spoiler Dukat killed her. Until that point I was actually on Team Dukat.
Apparently I'm majorly in the minority in this thread at least. Yeah she was (is) cute, but I thought she was both the worst-written and worst-performed character of the main DS9 cast. Though to be fair, still better than most of Voyager's cast.
Well the characters were very good. I'd rank her ahead of all of the Ferengis but probably the worst of the crew. That's not because she was bad though, the rest were really good. Her replacement was terrible. Her character got hurt by Neera being so good. A lot of the important stuff went to her. At the end she kind of just existed for Worf and Sisko to have a few scenes with.
Yeah, I agree that she seemed like nothing but a foil towards the end. Which, to be honest, is a decision I applaud since the episodes that focused on her mostly bored me. Not as bad as the Ferengi-focused episodes, but still not good. I certainly didn't like Nicole any better than Terry as an actress, but I did think her character was at least more interesting actually. And yeah, Kira Nerys (I think that's who you mean by "Neera"... accidental amalgamation?) was amazing. She might even be my favorite female character in all of sci-fi. But that is part of the problem, like you said. Most of the rest of the cast was fantastic, so being merely good or okay just looks bad by comparison. Sisko, Kira, O'Brien, Kai Winn, Dukat, Garak, Vic. There were just a metric ton of unbelievably great characters in that show. Edit... Side note: Spoiler Probably because I wasn't that big on the character, I wasn't super-crestfallen when Dukat killed her. Buuuuuut... Damar killing Ziyal? Gets me right in the feels. Every time.
We'd be friends lol. And yes, I meant Kira. The Ziyal deal took my by total surprise. Did not see it coming at all. I was a big fan of the Dukat character. His arch is probably my favorite in the show. Garak also, what a character. I think maybe Julian was the weakest character of the humans. I'll take Dax over him. The Ferengis were ridiculous and that waitress that was married to Rom was horrible as well. Could have done without all of them except the occasional Quark deal.
Are we talking "characters" or "acting" or some combination? Because I thought characters like O'Brien were boring and didn't move me as actors much. Kai Winn's role was monstrous, but even her acting wasn't all that to me. Seemed just too wimpy or something. Kira was awesome as a character and actress, though, (and it still kills me when I reflect back on the day I realized she was that psycho woman on Night Court). Dukat was good as both, as well. Sisqo, the character was pretty good, but there are times when Avery Brooks' acting was amazing and other times where it just seemed overdone. My favorite character, though has probably always been Garak. He's quite possibly one of my faves in all Star Trek, if not the favorite. I liked Jadzia because she just seemed like a character sidekick that knew her role and they always put her in that role for the most part, whereas they often gave the O'Brien character too much of a role in some episodes and I didn't think Colm Meaney was all that as an actor. There's some type of realism that characters like Dukat, Garek, Nerys, and believe it or not, Quark, and hell, even Rom, and their actors never broke for me that made me like them. It's as if they said "this is what you are" and they took the role and nailed it. It's not that Rom and Quark were great roles or anything, but those roles were played well and pretty consistently. O'Brien's role did nothing for me in TNG or in DS9, and his acting was meh to me. It's like ... why do you exist? Oh yeah... you have to run the transporter and be "engineer guy". Also agree about your spoiler and Ziyal, but feel completely opposite about Jadzia.
Leeta was indeed pretty lame. I know some people loved Quark all the time and wanted more of him... I did like him, but only as a complementary character or as a foil for Odo (the way Odo never "acknowledged" him at the very end of the series actually disappointed me slightly). Every time they trotted out the Grand Nagus and/or his mother it was like come on, not this again... My god Dukat. Just one of my favorite villains ever, truly. Winn was awesome in her own way as well... where you kinda wanted to jump into the screen and strangle her yourself... but Dukat was a next-level villain. Did you know there's a Garak novel called "A Stitch in Time"? It's really quite good. Written by Andrew Robinson himself. Comes off a little Enders Game-ish I think, actually. Totally worthwhile. Of course maybe that's just because I'm a sucker for Garak. Him and Dukat are my two favorite characters in the Star Trek Universe. Or, you know, just two of my favorite characters period, in anything. 100% agreed on Bashir too, that he was one of the weaker ones. I rated him worse than Dax early on. Didn't surprise me in the least to watch the special features on the DVD set only to have him say in interviews that they didn't know what to do with his character in season 1. Literally all they had defined for his role was "he's a young, green, over-eager doctor." That's it. And it showed. But I think he easily surpassed Dax by the end of the show. He became charming as a moral-center character, though in the mid-seasons that part of him felt overwrought. But I loved his performances in the episodes with the other "genetically enhanced humans gone wrong". And most of all I loved the friendship with O'Brien. That was an even better bromance than JD an Turk from Scrubs! (Good god, the nerd is strong in me today)
I mean kinda both I suppose. I try to separate the two, but it's often hard. All the time actors & actresses win academy awards for best actor/actress just because they happened to land a really well-written character. Didn't like O'Brien huh? I just felt like he was such an excellent "everyman". He didn't always hold up stories super-well himself (the "imaginary prison" episode I think was perhaps too far out of his wheelhouse and seemed awfully forced), but his interactions with the rest of the crew, his friendship with Bashir, and his background with the Cardassians in general made him interesting to me. Avery Brooks I loved most of the time; he was my favorite Star Trek captain, though I agree it was occasionally overdone, most of all the Emissary stuff. That largely felt overplayed, but it was consistent enough that I got the feeling he was directed to "overact". I could be wrong. At least everyone seems to agree on the awesomeness of Garak/Dukat/Kira.
Random trivia I just found: Roxanne Dawson (Torres from Voyager) was once married to Casey Biggs, who played Damar, before either of them was on Star Trek.
